Spring 2025-2026 Athletic Awards

St. Sebastian's School is proud to recognize its student-athletes for their performance on the Arrows varsity baseball, golf, lacrosse, tennis and ultimate teams. Awards and letters were given at the Spring Athletic Awards Assembly on Tuesday, May 26. Congratulations to all our athletes on a great season!

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BASEBALL

ISL 1st Team All-League
Jack Dorsey ’27, Brett Gallo ’26, Jimmy McNulty ’27

ISL Honorable Mention
Jackson Fulginite ’27, Alex Marx ’29, Gavin Wainwright ’27

ISL Gold Glove
Brendan McHugh ’26

Paul Lepley Award
Presented by the coaches to the players who show the qualities of commitment, teamwork, and dedication to the sport of baseball at St. Sebastian's School.
Carson Arevian ’26

Captains-elect
Jack Dorsey ’27, Jimmy McNulty ’27, Gavin Wainwright ’27

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GOLF

ISL 1st Team All-League
Brooks Carter ’28, Liam Reed ’28

ISL Honorable Mention
Charlie Lans ’29

James D. Sullivan Award
Presented to a golfer who exemplifies sacrifice for the good of the team, team spirit, and a most positive attitude in the face of disappointment.
John Grimes ’26, JP Martin ’26

Captains-elect
Brooks Carter ’28, Liam Reed ’28

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LACROSSE

ISL 1st Team All-League
Ethan Abdella ’27, Jake Beck ’27, Brian Burke ’26, Ty Curry ’26, David Hahm ’26, George Kelly ’26

ISL Honorable Mention
Will Haggerty ’27, Sam Weston ’27

All-NEPSAC
Ty Curry ’26, George Kelly ’26

All-NEPSAC Honorable Mention
Brian Burke ’26, David Hahm ’26

US Lacrosse All-American
Ty Curry ’26

US Lacrosse Academic All-American
Brian Burke ’26

Captains-elect
Quincy Quillard ’27, Sam Weston ’27

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TENNIS

ISL Honorable Mention
Quinn Mulvey ’26

Henry T. Lane Award 
Given by the Coaches to the St. Sebastian’s tennis player whose love for tennis, commitment to sportsmanship, and dedication to team best contributes to the success of the Varsity Tennis Program. 
Andrew MacDougall ’27, Akul Trikha ’27

Coaches Appreciation Award
Akul Trikha ’27

Captains-elect
Andrew MacDougall ’27, and Antonio Martinez ’27, Alexander Wasynczuk ’27

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ULTIMATE

Coaches' Award
Joe Poulos ’26, Michael Rohatgi ’26

Captains-elect
Ryan Healey ’27, Declan Schwarz ’27

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OTHER AWARDS

Athletic Commitment Award
Presented to Members of the Senior Class who have participated in athletics each season from their sophomore through senior years.
Seb Culleton ’26, Joe Poulos ’26, Michael Rohatgi ’26

ISL Award of Excellence
For exhibiting the Independent School League ideals of integrity, sportsmanship, fair play, and good citizenship while participating as a multi-sport athlete during his ISL career.
Tedy Frisoli ’26

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During the Assembly, Director of Athletics Jon Bartlett delivered the following remarks:

Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Nerbonne, and Fr. Boyle, Faculty and Staff, Students of St Sebastian’s:

Welcome to the 2026 Spring Athletic Awards Assembly.

As always, thank you to the Athletic Department: Our Trainers, Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. Carpino, Strength Coaches Coach Kliff and Coach Carr, and also Mr. Silipo.

I do want to give a special shout-out to Coach Duffy for this spring, with the number of contests that had to be rescheduled due to weather or other circumstances. Most days this spring making changes to schedules, buses, and referees. Thanks, Duff.

Our Facilities Team, in particular Paul P., and also Francisco, Doug, Jared, and Eric Jr., for their behind-the-scenes work.

Mr. Willey and Coach D. Burke for their presence at games.

And the best security team in the ISL, Rob and Robin.

We will hear from our 5 Head Spring Varsity coaches shortly to give an overview of their season. Before we do, I want to take a moment not only to thank these varsity coaches and their entire staff. I also want to thank all of our spring coaches at every level for their time, energy, and commitment to the season. And of course, thank you to all spring athletes for representing our school in competition with class.

What did we witness this spring:

• Baseball taking a pre-season trip to Florida for the first time during Spring Break. The team had a group of seniors who had been together for a number of spring seasons. The team had big wins all season, including BH. Then had an incredible comeback win in the 1st round of playoffs, storming back to beat Nobles in the last inning.
• Golf, a young team with solid senior leadership, had a great season, including a signature win against BH. The team finished 4th in the ISL, their highest finish in a few years.
• Lacrosse also had a great team bonding March Break trip, while playing opponents that were nationally ranked. All 5 Lax Captains were multi-sport athletes, and 4 of these captains were multiple-sport captains. The Arrows also were nationally ranked this season, had consecutive wins over BH, then had playoff wins against Govs and Milton, and a valiant comeback try against Tabor in the ISL Finals.
• Talking about comebacks, the Tennis program has made some great strides this year, their highest win total in a few years. A veteran senior captain led a young team who were competitive in all matches. And had 2 walk-off last set victories to end the season.
• Our Ultimate Frisbee team once again finished their season with double-digit victories, and at the New England Prep School Finals, made an amazing run to the finals, losing a close match to Concord. This group was led by a close-knit group of seniors who have been together since their sophomore year.
• A heartfelt recognition to our senior managers this spring, whose quiet leadership behind the scenes allowed for successful operations. It takes a village to make any program run smoothly, and these senior managers were a big reason why. And I would be remiss if I did not give a sincere thank you and shout out to Trey, for Trey Media, allowing Seb's social media to make a jump into the top tier. We will miss all of our senior managers.
• And finally, Henry’s support was magnificent once again. The athletes play off of your energy, which you do with class. And you understand the importance of brotherhood, as you are there for the athletes after the game, win or lose.

The consistent theme you just heard about our spring season success? Senior leadership. To have seniors aligned with our coaches’ philosophies allows for unselfishness and a team-first mentality.

You have heard Mr. Sullivan’s word ‘Mission’ mentioned many times during the school year. And yet when a school promotes its mission statement, one usually does not equate it to Athletics. An effective mission statement, however, for any organization, will be translated to all departments, including Athletics. The last stanza of the Mission Statement reads: “The ideal St. Sebastian’s graduate will be a moral and just person, a gentleman of courage, honor, and wisdom”. How does this translate to Athletics? With room for interpretation, it can translate to, “The ideal St. Sebastian’s student-athlete will be a positive teammate who perseveres, who leaves everything on the field, no matter what the score, he will be a good sport, and will represent his coach, family, and his school, with pride.”

The goal in the athletic department is to foster a team-first approach to competition. With how the sports world has evolved over recent years, our St. Sebastian’s coaches face a challenge every year. You see, our coaches here at Sebs get you for one season. Your off-season sport, when you are playing club, aau, or travel, you are part of an organization, right or wrong, that is set up to better the self, how individual players can showcase the self. You are connected with your outside coaches for most of the year - your high school coaches - for a few short months. Athletes, you need to understand the importance of getting educated in teamwork, and thank you, Sebs coaches for that.

Here’s why, and I speak mainly to our seniors as you prepare to leave in a few short weeks.

Our Sebs coaches are teaching you X’s and O’s just like your skilled outside coaches. But more importantly, each season here, they are focusing on values that not only help you during the season, but with values that will stay with you for life: compete with resolve, show resilience, fortitude, and determination, and most of all, how to be a valued member of a team. If you only played for an outside team, would you get these valuable life lessons? I’m not sure. Yet what these Sebs coaches are giving you will carry over into the work world: how to work and solve problems with others, how to show care for others; impact your decisions within a family dynamic, and the sacrifices one has to make to putting family members first; and the most important piece of being part of participating on a Sebs team is living within our mission by “embracing Gospel values”. The world has become cynical in many ways. When you move into the real world, how to navigate your life among those who might show pessimism, selfishness, and unhappiness. How you handle those bad days is similar to how you would adjust in a game. You cannot let it manifest and impact your performance. Stay true to yourself and your goals. Just like you did in games this spring.

In a New York Times Opinion article last week, Michel Leibowitz articulated the new mindset on college campuses and beyond, saying that we now ‘lack civility and the capacity to respectfully disagree, but that many of us live as collections of strangers, each pursuing our own needs, and that our college education does almost nothing to develop the sense that what we do in our-day-to day lives resonates with the people beyond ourselves”. Sounds dire I know, it’s not that bad; but the point she was making sounds a bit like someone playing on an outside club team? Every person for themself. She goes on to say that the “First American colleges were created to train clergymen and educate them in virtue…and “perhaps that goal of character formation has faded too far into the background”.

So, senior athletes, with your Seb's athletic career now over, you need to understand that you are heading into a college setting, and into the professional world, a world that may seem contradictory to what you were taught here at St. Sebastian’s. Stay true to the character formation your teachers and coaches taught you each season. Stay true to our mission.

Pope Francis said to “fix your gaze on the mission, the vision…and make yourself free to race after it, free from anything that might hold you back”. Pursue your dreams even if you hit obstacles.

Seniors, we need that same optimism and positive energy you gave us this past spring. Take it with you. Be missionaries of the mission.

And it is proven, we have seen the results. What I love about the St. Sebastian’s alumni who have gone on to play collegiate sports, professional sports, have competed in the Olympics, and have come back to teach and coach here at Sebs. What do you notice about them: Friendly, Attentive, Giving, Respectful, Caring. They are each, as our mission states, gentlemen of courage, honor, and wisdom. The mission stays with you even after you graduate – they are great examples of that.

And that is the meaning of sport, and what it can teach each and every one of you. As Mr. Sullivan mentioned last week, our mission does not ask you to win awards. It states you will be a moral and just person, a gentleman of courage, honor, and wisdom. Our mission statement will always be translated to our playing fields. Our teams’ performances this spring have shown us that you succeeded in achieving this.

Let us now recognize our Spring Varsity athletes to celebrate their Spring Season.